10 Nov
2010
10 Nov
'10
4:51 p.m.
I have files with the following structure:
garbage garbage garbage output start .. good data .. good data .. good data .. good data output end garbage garbage garbage
How can I extract the good data from the file trimming the garbage from the beginning and end?
The following works just fine but it's dirty because I don't like the fact that I have to pick an arbitrarily large number for the "before" and "after" values.
grep -A 999999 "output start" <infile> | grep -B 999999 "output end" > newfile
Can anyone come up with something more elegant?
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John Lange
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